1960s Quote by Tom Folsom
“Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.”
“Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.”
![“If you hadn't seen what we looked like, you would have thought we were a punk band. I remember going down to the [London club] Roxy one night just to see what the punk thing was all about. I was standing at the bar, and this bush behind me said, "I used to sell acid at [Hawkwind's] all-night shows…” quote by Motorhead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b91/motorhead-17753_long-hair_if-you-hadn-t-seen-what-we-looked-like-y_1507261.jpg)
![“The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e6/bob-dylan-168_america_the-exploitation-and-superficiality-of-m_988105.jpg)
![“[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.” quote by T Bone Burnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f6/t-bone-burnett-15022_bob_bob-dylan-began-to-incorporate-things-in_3141328.jpg)
![“[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ab/jay-michaelson-15590_american-dream_bob-dylan-like-johnny-cash-and-only-a-ha_966862.jpg)
![“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up…” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed7/michael-dirda-3414_1960s_nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-li_13506.jpg)
![“[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.” quote by Betsey Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/29a/betsey-johnson-11907_1960s_in-the-1960s-you-could-take-lsd-but-you_14174.jpg)
